The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions, having the nature of an academy of sciences.
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The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN) is a Polish state scholarly institution, headquartered in Warsaw, that was established in 1952 by the merger of earlier scholarly societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning (Polska Akademia Umiejętności, abbreviated PAU), with its seat in Kraków, and the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning, which had been founded in the late 18th century. The Polish Academy of Sciences functions as a learned society acting through an elected corporation of leading scholars and research institutions. The Academy has also, operating through its committees, become a major scientific advisory body. In 1989, the Polish Academy of Learning, in Kraków, resumed its independent existence, separate from the Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw.
Notable members
- Tomasz Dietl physicist
- Maria Janion, scholar, critic and theoretician of literature
- Bohdan Paczynski astropysicist
- Adam Schaff (Marxist philosopher who was a member of the Academy)
- Aleksander Wolszczan astronomer
Also Jerzy Kosiński was a graduate and a scientist of the Academy.
Foreign members
- Aage Niels Bohr physicist
- Karl Alexander Müller physicist
- Roger Penrose mathematician
- Carlo Rubbia physicist
- Chen Ning Yang physicist
Periodicals
See also
- Polish Academy of Learning (headquartered in Kraków).
- Academy of Sciences
- French Academy of Sciences
- Royal Society
External links
- PAN website (English)
